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2His/Your WorshipBritish as titleUsed in addressing or referring to an important or high-ranking person, especially a magistrate or mayor.

‘we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor’

‘Your Worship," said he, "will, I hope, take it into your consideration that if I had not been honest I might have kept the whole."’

‘Having enjoyed a couple of pre-match drinks, His Worship and a good sized crowd made their way out to the pitch, to see instead of the first team fixture a game between the Bury 3rd XV and a Liverpool St.Helens Development side.’

‘"Nay, sir," cries Dowling, "I would not have your worship think I would, on any account, be guilty of subornation of perjury; but there are two ways of delivering evidence."’

verb

[with object]

1Show reverence and adoration for (a deity)

‘the Maya built jungle pyramids to worship their gods’

‘The original inhabitants of Oman were pantheists, worshiping various goddesses and gods.’

‘The Mother Goddess is worshipped as Durga, but also assumes the form of local ammans, or goddesses, such as Mariamman, who protects against disease.’

‘Buddhists strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life and do not worship gods or deities.’

‘In India, the most colourful and elaborate celebrations take part in Bengal, where huge idols of the goddess are worshipped.’

‘Most Malaysian Indians are Hindus, and they worship a pantheon of gods.’

‘Potato deities were worshipped and used for telling the time and treating illness.’

‘At festivals we decorate and honor her, but we do not worship her in the sense that we worship the Deity.’

‘His paintings, done in earthy colours, depicted men worshiping the kula deva, or clan god, in the form of linear drawings with geometric heads and bodies filled in with lines and triangles.’

‘The ancient Yemenis were polytheistic - they worshiped many different goddesses and gods.’

‘Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre.’

‘The ancient world, or the religion that we're talking about, worshipped a pantheon of gods, a gallery of gods.’

‘Templeton is like a temple for Bedloe, a place of highest reverence where deities are worshipped.’

‘In fact, this freedom is at the root of the composite nature of Hinduism as they worship many deities.’

‘The walls of temples were carved with images of Portuguese visitors and Arab traders, of Brahmins honouring the Buddha and Buddhists worshipping Hindu deities.’

‘Along the coast of south India, Hindus tend to worship local deities, most of them female and far down the Hindu hierarchy of divinities.’

‘Shinto is the oldest known Japanese religion, yet it has no founder, no sacred scriptures like the Sutras or the Bible, and no single deity to be worshipped and revered.’

‘The books I looked at and bought spoke of people who once worshiped female deities rather than male ones.’

‘Here we have a main character, played by Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah, wearing Hindu clothing and worshiping the Goddess Kali.’

‘Buschbeck explained that Hellenes do not worship the pantheon of 12 gods as deities.’

‘The temple at Madurai is one of the few temples in India containing both male and female deities where the Goddess is always worshipped before the Gods.’